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Using Alternative Light Source Technology to Enhance Visual Inspection of the Skin
摘要： BACKGROUND: The identification of deep tissue pressure injury (DTPI) in the early stages of evolution presents a challenge, as skin compromise is only visually apparent when evidence of damage reaches its outer layers. CASE DESCRIPTION: We describe use of an alternative light source (ALS) to enhance visual skin assessment in 3 cases. Case 1 was a 47-year-old African American man with a hyperpigmented inner buttocks and a mixture of partial- and shallow full-thickness skin loss from incontinence-associated dermatitis and friction. Case 2 was a 62-year-old African American woman with a gluteal cleft DTPI. Case 3 was a 57-year-old African American woman with a stage 3 pressure injury of the right buttock. CONCLUSION: The ALS enabled visualization of skin nuances not visible to the unaided eye. Based on this experience, we conclude that use of an ALS provided additional visual details when compared to traditional visual inspection. We found that as the ALS interplays with skin layers, penetrating and absorbing at differing depths, compromised skin appeared darker and more distinct when compared to adjacent, intact skin. Additional research is needed to determine whether the ALS enables earlier pressure injury detection, timelier and more effective intervention, decreased morbidity, and cost savings.
关键词： Alternative light source,Pressure injury,Deep tissue pressure injury,Pressure ulcer
更新于2025-09-23 15:22:29
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Gunshot residue on dark materials: a comparison between infrared photography and the use of an alternative light source
摘要： The pattern of gunshot residue (GSR) includes important information about muzzle-target distance since a larger GSR distribution diameter indicates a larger shooting distance. GSR may not be visible to the naked eye when, for example, it is located on dark textiles. In such cases, further procedures need to be performed in order to visualize the pattern of GSR. Besides chemical procedures, an alternative light source or infrared photography can be utilized for non-destructive GSR visualization. In the work presented, these two techniques are compared based on shooting experiments using 26 different dark textiles. Within the range of the alternative light source, the use of a 440-nm light in combination with an orange-colored filter led to the best visualization of GSR in the form of fluorescent particles. Infrared photography, on the other hand, visualized GSR as dark particles, whereas—ideally—the dark textile reflected the infrared light and appeared bright. The comparison of both techniques revealed that the GSR distribution visualized by infrared photography was not identical to the GSR distribution visualized with 440-nm illumination in combination with an orange-colored filter. We concluded that infrared photography visualizes the inner powder soot zone, whereas illumination at 440 nm leads to fluorescence of the outer powder soot zone, which can be visualized using an orange-colored filter. Knowledge of this difference in visualization of the two powder soot zones is important for forensic practitioners assessing firing distances. In the literature, however, this difference is not noted as clearly.
关键词： Gunshot residue GSR,Alternative light source,Forensic light source,Crime scene investigation,Shooting distance,Infrared photography
更新于2025-09-10 09:29:36